Conservative talk show host Mancow (aka Erich Muller) volunteered himself to be waterboarded in order to demonstrate that the technique is not torture. Well, guess what? The guy lasted a whopping SIX SECONDS before he stopped it and declared it…. drumroll…. “ABSOLUTE TORTURE!”.
I give the guy credit, he was certain that it was going to be some water on the face for sissies and then he had to admit that it was actually an exercise in drowning. Keith Olberman is sending in $10,000 to Mancow’s choice of charity for this demonstration. You really need to click the video/link to get a few minutes synopsis of the whole “waterboarding is not torture” line of reasoning. This clip nails it, complete with a skilled waterboarding specialist who claims that the average person can only withstand the technique for 14 seconds. Mancow drowned as a child and was revived back to life. He has a unique perspective on what it means……..
to be the victim of drowning. For this stunt, he got the cadillac version of being waterboarded, knowing that he could end the waterboarding treatment at any time by throwing down a plastic cow as a sign for it to stop. He also had a wet towel draped over his nose and mouth left free – which is considerably more comfortable and less threatening than having his head covered in plastic wrap with a slit hole over the mouth. Comments?
gee maybe lets have a party for the terrorist . perhaps take them disney world . lets see we waterboard them , they cut off our heads but red vixon wants to treat them fair .
oh and i forgot . i see this is msnbc report . conversation over . it might as well came from the huffington post , or daily kos .
Like O’Donnell says in the clip, you can’t talk to people like The Not-So-Great One about issues like this because they can’t really be bothered by little things called facts…or evidence that can challenge one’s rigid ideological view.
If you still think it’s not torture, then step up and take the Mancow challenge!
hey anon last time i looked they do this to TERRORIST ”” MAYBE if you cath one you could offer them a cookie ,
The great one,
Torture is illegal. We are not some banana boat country. We have standards.
You’ve got a very thuggish attitude towards justice. Not good.
Gee……say it is “torture”…we get information, with no long term injury to the bad guys…..not a bad deal. Would I want it done to me…no, do I care if we do it to Spies, illegal combatants, and terrorists….not really
great post bigmarkod these liberals on this site just dont get it , they want to treat these clowns with kid gloves .
Excellent article on the subject:
Against it, however, I call as my main witness Mr. Malcolm Nance. Mr. Nance is not what you call a bleeding heart. In fact, speaking of the coronary area, he has said that, in battlefield conditions, he “would personally cut bin Laden’s heart out with a plastic M.R.E. spoon.” He was to the fore on September 11, 2001, dealing with the burning nightmare in the debris of the Pentagon. He has been involved with the sere program since 1997. He speaks Arabic and has been on al-Qaeda’s tail since the early 1990s. His most recent book, The Terrorists of Iraq, is a highly potent analysis both of the jihadist threat in Mesopotamia and of the ways in which we have made its life easier
passed one of the most dramatic evenings of my life listening to his cold but enraged denunciation of the adoption of waterboarding by the United States. The argument goes like this:
1. Waterboarding is a deliberate torture technique and has been prosecuted as such by our judicial arm when perpetrated by others.
2. If we allow it and justify it, we cannot complain if it is employed in the future by other regimes on captive U.S. citizens. It is a method of putting American prisoners in harm’s way.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/08/hitchens…
Some people don’t seem to understand the “one Nation under God” part of the Pledge of Allegiance. Maybe their Gods are Greek and they can shout “Torture” out of the other side of their mouth, but for most it’s a clear though not an easy path like many moral choices.
Not-So-Great-One,
I don’t care if they’re waterboarding the freakin’ antichrist! It’s illegal!!